Bok depth is just ridiculous

No Siya Kolisi, no Pieter-Steph du Toit, no Frans Malherbe, no Steven Kitshoff... no problem.

- with Jacques van der Westhuyzen

None of these players will feature for the Boks in the team's first two matches this year and in the case of Malherbe, he might not play at all this season, while Kitshoff has in fact retired from rugby.

And though it's disappointing that Kitshoff is no longer in the mix and injuries and setbacks cause players to miss out, including Damian Willemse for the whole of last season and Faf de Klerk for a big chunk of it, the reality is the Springboks have got so many quality players in their system it doesn't matter anymore what team Rassie Erasmus puts out.